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Everyone will agree that Naomi Campbell is one of the greatest models, but, as a person–perhaps not so much? In the last few months she has been in the news many times: slugging her billionaire boyfriend Vladimir Doronin’s limo driver; hitting a camera as she walked off an interview when queried about receiving a blood diamond from Liberian despot Charles Taylor; rumors of her engagement to Vlad; and, now, an upcoming Oprah appearance to clear the air. Who can forget the thrown phones, the run-in with Heathrow cops, Tyra crying that Naomi tried to ruin her career, street-cleaning sentences and anger-management rehab. And that she dated Mike Tyson a million midnights ago? A Daniel Craig look-alike, Doronin has been seeing Naomi for two years, so I guess it doesn’t faze him. He sat in the audience, with Campbell’s mother, to lend support during the Oprah taping. I must see that show.

UPDATE from Oprah: The drugs, the tantrums, the tears–and her new life in Moscow–were all addressed. She came off very well: I believe Naomi’s story of trying to be a better soul!

These guys have got it made. We’ve seen French President Sarkozy & his new bride, Carla Bruni. Now Vlad Putin, 55, & newly-divorced, is “purportedly” engaged to nubile 24-year-old Olympic gymnast & new member of Parliament, Alina Kabaeva.

Putin just bought a massive & magnificent chateau near St. Tropez that has 2 pools. Maybe the new digs are for his honeymoon??? Some say that Putin is the richest man in the world now.

Putin is very tough–he was high-up in the KGB. Garry Kasparov, the internationally renowned chess champion, who is a national hero &vocal critic of Vladimir Putin‘s govt., has been jailed. Bill Maher had him on about 6 weeks ago. He was going back to Russia to run in the pres. election.Chess is as popular in Russia as NASCAR or wrestling is here. It’s like–OHMYGOD-jailing Jeff Gordon or Hulk Hogan–DUH. Kasparov has brains, guts, & soul. 4 yrs back they took YUKOS, the Russian oil monopoly, away from young multi-multi billionaire, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, charged him w/ tax evasion, & threw him in a gulag–after he threated Putin politically.